Are al-Qaeda actually Muslims?
Well the death of Osama bin Laden has pretty much exposed the weakness and hypocrisy of the al-Qaeda movement. Firstly in bin Laden’s compound they found an extensive stash of […]
Arab League
Libya endgame
Whilst rebel leaders were feted in London and Washington, Gaddafi was just holding on to power. The government goons in Tripoli in their Toyota pickups are failing to hold the […]
Arab spring attention fatigue
The main job of British newspapers is to sell newspapers. The main job of the broadcast news services is to take customers away from other broadcast news services, ratings matter […]
Al Jazeera is just great
So the highly oppressed Shia majority in Bahrain are forgotten about by the Western media and plans are afoot to re-schedule the F1 motor race there. And Al Jazeera has […]
Yet more Syria videos
These are immensely important. Syria is one of the most repressive states on earth, the ruling dynasty do not allow basic, fundamental human rights to their population. They also have […]
Mission creep in Libya
Mission creep seems to be inevitable in any military venture, the Americans sent a few military advisers to Vietnam and ended up in a long and bloody war, we went […]
Libya, a time for diplomacy
The Libyan coastal strip is a strange place to conduct a war, the distances are vast and there is nothing there but desert and a few small towns that are […]
Libya, the endgame
So Colonel Gaddafi has lost, it is just a matter of time to his departure day. Militarily the ground forces against him are singularly unimpressive and fire most of their […]
Don’t forget Bahrain, Yemen and Syria
In the West the media focus is on Libya because our forces are involved so that is where all the press assets are engaged. Meanwhile there are ongoing civil uprisings […]
Are we going to let Gaddafi win?
At the moment, on the ground, Gaddafi is winning in Libya and is systematically crushing the revolt, aided enormously be the actions and inactions of the West. Firstly why is […]